Improvement in supporting-busks for corset-fastenings



-UNITED STATES MELLISSA E. BULKLEY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE'ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUPPORTING-BUSKS FORCORSET-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,152, dated December26, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MELLissA E. BULKLEY, of the city and county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Im provedSupporting-Bush for Gorset-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to a new device for conveniently attaching busks tocorsets to support the fastening by which the two parts are united andprotect the body of the wearer from injury when a steel breaks; andconsists in attaching three pieces of metal to the busk, as hereinafterfully described and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a front view of a corset with the bush applied thereto bymeans of my attachment. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through dotted line wshowing` a transverse View of one end piece. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectionthrough y y, showing a transverse view of the middle piece.

A represents that part of the corset which has the steel with stud-pinsE thereon. On these pins the eyes fasten in the usual manner of hooksand eyes. H is the ordinary busk. I I are sliding plates, and K astationary plate. Each of the former is made of a single piece of sheetmetal with its two ends bent over toward each other and one of them bentback and transversely slotted, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 oi' drawing. YThe piece K is constructed in the same form as the pieces I I, exceptthat the slot of they former is in the line of the length of the metal.This piece K is passed over the steel of the buslr and fastened thereonabout midway, all being under the cover except the slotted andprojecting end. The two pieces I I are made to slide uponthe cover ofthe busk, and there is sufficient friction to readily retain themwherever placed.

rIhe bush, being thus furnished with my attachnient, is applied to thecorset as follows: The end slot N of stationary piece K is pushedastraddle the central pin E and under its head. The sliders I I are thenbrought, in the same manner, upon the end studs E E, when the busk isfast to the corset. g

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding ofmy invention, what I esteem to be new, and desire to protect by LettersPatent, is-

The sliding pieces I I and fixed piece K, constructed and combined withthe bush, as and for the purpose speciiied. t 4

MELLISSA E. 'BULKLEY.

Witnesses: `WM. MCALLISTER, EDWIN A. BULKLEY. (80)

